wokescold
English
Etymology
Compound of woke (“aware of social-justice issues”) + scold.
Noun
wokescold (plural wokescolds)
- (neologism, informal, derogatory) A person who criticizes or shames others for being insufficiently woke, or not supporting social justice causes.
- 2019, Ben Shapiro, "2019: The Year Of The Wokescolds", The Cocheco Times, 10 January 2019, page 6:
- Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic.
- 2019, Jason O'Day, "Obama isn't feeling 'woke'", The Daily Iowan (University of Iowa), 6 November 2019, page 4:
- Like Pope Urban VII, the self-righteous wokescolds seek to impose their questionable views and shifty standards on the rest of society by silencing dissenters with labels.
- 2020, Dana Loesch, Grace Canceled: How Outrage is Destroying Lives, Ending Debate, and Endangering Democracy, unnumbered page:
- When it was announced that David Mamet's American Buffalo was returning to Broadway, cranky theater wokescolds protested.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wokescold.
- Synonym: social justice warrior
- Hypernyms: wokeling, wokester, woketard, wokie
- 2019, Ben Shapiro, "2019: The Year Of The Wokescolds", The Cocheco Times, 10 January 2019, page 6:
Verb
wokescold (third-person singular simple present wokescolds, present participle wokescolding, simple past and past participle wokescolded)
- (neologism, informal, derogatory) To aggressively chastise or berate somebody for holding insufficiently left-Liberal political or social views, or for behaving in a manner antithetical to such views.
- He then proceeded to wokescold the woman for not changing her pfp like everyone else had recently done.